jou

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Alternative forms

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  • djou (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology 1

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From Dutch jou. Also related to English you.

Pronoun

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jou (subject jy)

  1. you (singular, object)

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Etymology 2

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From Dutch jouw.

Determiner

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jou

  1. your (singular)
    • 2016, “In Jou Atmosfeer”, in Sal Jy Met My Dans?[1], performed by Kurt Darren, South Africa:
      In jou atmosfeer.
      In your atmosphere.

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Baltic Romani

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Alternative forms

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Pronoun

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jou (third person masculine singular, nominative case)

  1. (Litovska) he

Declension

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan jou, from Latin iugum (compare Occitan jo, French joug, Spanish yugo), from Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jou m (plural jous)

  1. (agriculture, also figuratively) yoke
  2. col (between mountains)
  3. (nautical) transom (type of structural beam)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Champenois

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French jor, from Late Latin diurnum.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ʒu/

Noun

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jou m (plural jous)

  1. (Troyen) day

References

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  • Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[3] (in French), Troyes

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch jou, from Old Dutch *jū, a northern (Frisian?) variant of *iu, from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, a West Germanic variant of *izwiz. Doublet of u.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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jou

  1. objective form of jij (you (singular)): you
    Ik zal dit wel even doen voor jou.I'll do this for you.
    Kan ik jou iets vragen?
    Can I ask you something?
    Ik geef jou mijn boek om te lezen.
    I'm giving you my book to read.
    Zij heeft een cadeau voor jou gekocht.
    She bought a gift for you.
  2. Misspelling of jouw (your).

Usage notes

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In informal language, mostly replaced by the unstressed form je, with the form jou used for emphasis or contrast.

Hoe gaat het met je? — Goed. En met jou?
How are you? — I'm good. What about you?
Heb je zijn telefoonnummer voor me? — Dat mag ik je eigenlijk niet geven, maar voor jou maak ik graag een uitzondering.
Could you give me his phone number? — I'm not really supposed to give it out to you, but for you I'll gladly make an exception.

Declension

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Alternative forms

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Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: jou
  • Jersey Dutch: jāu
  • Petjo: jou
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: asu

Verb

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jou

  1. inflection of jouen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Finnish

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Etymology

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< English yo

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjou̯/, [ˈjo̞u̯]
  • Rhymes: -ou
  • Syllabification(key): jou

Interjection

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jou (slang)

  1. yo (greeting)

Anagrams

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French jour.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jou

  1. day

Japanese

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Romanization

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jou

  1. The hiragana syllable じょう (jou) or the katakana syllable ジョウ (jou) in Hepburn romanization.

Kalo Finnish Romani

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Pronoun

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jou

  1. he

References

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  • jou” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Mbyá Guaraní

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Verb

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jou

  1. to find
  2. to obtain

Conjugation

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Old French

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Pronoun

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jou

  1. Alternative form of je

Romansch

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Pronoun

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jou (Sutsilvan)

  1. Alternative form of jau (I)

Saterland Frisian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Frisian jūwe, from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognates include West Frisian jim and German euer.

Determiner

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jou (predicative jouens)

  1. your
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Etymology 2

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From Old Frisian , from Proto-West Germanic *iuwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Cognates include West Frisian jo and German euch.

Pronoun

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jou

  1. yourselves
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Pronoun

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jou

  1. oblique of jie; you
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References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “jou”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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jou

  1. Alternative spelling of joou (lord)

References

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Toba Batak

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Verb

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jou (active manjou)

  1. (transitive) to call

References

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  • J. Warneck (1906) Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch[4], Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, page 57

West Frisian

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Verb

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jou

  1. first-person singular present of jaan (to give)
  2. imperative of jaan (to give)